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And as Angela Davis so aptly portrays: freedom IS a constant struggle

We’re just here doing our part at this time in history. The US has indoctrinated most with the idea of freedom struggles being relegated to the past. “Solved issues” per se.

What we are witnessing now is a continuation of a fight that never ended.

The culmination of these powers and the World Wide Web give me hope that we may be witnessing a glorious extinction burst from the oppressive forces of the earth. One can dream!

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From Wikipedia:

In 1873, Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to moral supervision of the American public.[6] Later that year, Comstock successfully influenced the United States Congress to pass the Comstock Laws, which made illegal the delivery by U.S. mail, or by other modes of transportation, of "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material, as well as prohibiting any methods of production or publication of information pertaining to the procurement of abortion, the prevention of conception and the prevention of venereal disease.[9]

Some of Comstock's ideas of what were "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" could be seen by many modern Westerners as quite broad; during his time of greatest power, some anatomy textbooks were prohibited from being sent to medical students by the United States Postal Service.[5][6]

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